Officeworks Pinpoint magazine Pinpoint Issue 28 Spring 2018 | Page 8

Officeworks Awards & National Leadership Conference In August, we held our National Leadership Conference in Melbourne, with Officeworks leaders from across the country coming together to reflect on how we have helped make bigger things happen in the past year and look toward the year ahead. Senior leaders took the team across the Strategic Objectives for this year and highlighted fantastic examples of teams living Our Way every day in their roles. Officeworks Leadership Awards 2018 As part of the National Leadership Conference, teams demonstrating key leadership qualities across Our Way, the Officeworks Guiding Principles and the Positive Difference Plan were recognised and presented with an Officeworks Leadership Award. Congratulations to all of the winning teams! With more than 50 nominations, it was a tough competition. Northern Region Shrinkage action group The Northern Region Shrinkage Action group drove a significant reduction in shrinkage across a large number of northern region stores through a collaborative effort of the Loss Prevention and Retail Operations teams. During the financial year the team have driven a reduction in shrinkage of $1.3m (73.5% of the national total of $1.775m). A stand out here was the Bondi Junction store who lost $269k to shrinkage last year and have improved this year by more than $220k. 8 Officeworks Taree (NSW) Officeworks Taree (NSW) has been helping make bigger things happen for young Indigenous boys in their community. By building great relationships with the Clontarf Foundation and one of the local schools, Chatham Academy, the Taree team has made a difference for a number of local boys, assisting with work experience as part of their studies and offering employment with Officeworks. Officeworks Taree now has five Indigenous team members, representing 20% of the Taree team.   Learning & Development range launch team In February, through a collaboration between the Learning & Development Buying team, Brand team and Advertising team, Officeworks was able to successfully launch the new Learning & Development range with a strategy delivering widest range at great value. In terms of financial performance of the total category, sales were up 33 per cent YOY for the March to June period and margin up 19 per cent in the same period. Congratulations to all the teams involved in helping make bigger things happen for little minds.